CIA Director: North Korea, 'Axis of Oil' Pose Greatest Security Challenges for Next President -- FOX NewsLANGLEY, Va. — The fragile state of North Korea and the booming, oil-rich trio of Iran, Venezuela and Russia have grown increasingly aggressive and pose some of the greatest security challenges for the next president, CIA Director Michael Hayden says.
In an exclusive interview with FOX News, Hayden said weakness and poverty have made North Korea more aggressive as it threatens to restart work on its nuclear weapons program.
"This is a country in very, very desperate straits," Hayden said. "But out of this weakness, out of this very fragility, there’s this danger of great chaos; they seem to have a knack for using that very fragility to the best of their ability to affect the nations around them — ourselves included."
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke in August, leaving the status of power within the state unclear. A pariah abroad, the country is using that domestic chaos as a tool in an aggressive push against the U.S. government.
"They are very astute observers of the political processes, not just here, but in Japan, China, South Korea, Russia and elsewhere," Hayden said.
In September, North Korea removed seals placed by the International Atomic Energy Agency on its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon and announced its intention to rebuild facilities there after publicly destroying the reactor's cooling tower in June.
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My Comment: The financial and economic collapse of the world economy is my choice for the greatest security dangers for the next President.